General Notes

Owned land at Westminster and at Buscot in Berkshire. 1403 Member of Commission for Defence of the Realm in the Reign of Henry IV. 1406 Appointed to be the Seneschal and Controller of Winchester. 1410 - 26 Represented Buckinghamshire in Parliament at the time of Agincourt. 1410 - 24 High Sheriff of London. 1431 Buried at Langley Marish Church.
A summary of fines included in the past Court Rolls was made in 1640. Unfortunately all are now lost except one covering the period 1440 - 1441 which remained the property of the Earl of Shrewsbury. There are three documents referring to Richard Wyot:
Feudal aids for the Earl of Shrewsbury, referred to as ‘tenure in socage’. Assessment 2/- in £ or 10% in 1441 book: "Beatrice, Wife of Richard Cutbushe, to Richard Wyot and Margaret his wife, third part of a bovet(?) of land in Hallam. Fine 2s.". The same Beatrice gave the aforesaid Richard Wiat and his wife Margaret the third part of a Bovet of Land in Hallam. Fine 18d.